Duties on Horses, etc. Act 1802
| Year | 1802 |
(42 Geo. 3) C A P. C.
[26th June 1802]
'WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled,An Act for repealing the Duties on Licences taken out by Persons letting Horses for the Purpose of travelling Post, and on Horses let to Hire for travelling Post, and by Time, and on Stage Coaches; and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof, and also additional Duties on Horses let to Hire for travelling Post, and by Time , a Duty is charged for every Horse let to Hire for a Day, or any less Period of Time, for drawing any Carriage in the Manner therein mentioned; and it is by the said Act declared and enacted, that every Horse hired for any less Period of Time than two successive complete Days, should be deemed for the Purposes of the said Act to be hired for a Pay, and should be subject to all the Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions, as Horses hired for a Day, or less Period of Time, for drawing such Carriages as aforesaid, are by the said Act made liable and subject to: And whereas Doubts have arisen whether Horses so hired, in Cases where the Distances shall not be ascertained, are subject to the Duty granted by the said Act for each Day of such Hiring; and also whether the Provisions of the said Act extend to Persons letting out Horses to Hire by the Job, for any Period of Time exceeding two Days, where the Use of such Horses cannot be previously ascertained; and it is expedient to extend the Time for which Horses may be hired for such Purposes, subject to the Duties, Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions in the said Act mentioned:' May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That, from and after the thirty-first Day of JanuaryOne thousand eight hundred and three, any Horse, Mare, or Gelding may be let out to Hire for any Period of Time, not exceeding twenty-eight successive complete Days, by any Person or Persons whatever, having obtained a Licence according to the Directions of the said Act; and that every Horse, Mare, or Gelding hired for any less Period of Time than twenty-eight successive complete Days whether by the Job or otherwise, where the Distance such Horse, Mare, or Gelding shall travel, or the Use thereof, Shall not be or cannot be ascertained at the Time of such Letting, shall be deemed to be hired for a Day within the Meaning and for the Purposes of the said Act; and the Person and Persons so hiring the same shall be subject to the like Duty for each Day for which such Horse, Mare, or Gelding shall be so hired, and the Person or Persons letting the same shall be subject to the like Licence Duty, and they respectively shall be subject to all the Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures as Persons letting Hordes to Hire, or hiring the same for a Day, or less Period of Time, for the Purposes of the said Act, are by the said Act made liable and subject to; and every Horse, Mare, or Gelding hired for any Period of Time exceeding twenty-eight successive complete Days, for the Purposes mentioned in the said Act, whether by the Job or otherwise, where the Distance such Horse, Mare, or Gelding shall travel, or the Use thereof, shall not be or cannot be ascertained at the Time of such Letting, shall be deemed to be hired for two or more Days, and the Person or Persons so letting the same to Hire, and hiring the same respectively, shall be subject to all the Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures as Persons letting Horses to Hire, or hiring the same, for the Purposes of the said Act, are by the said Act made liable and subject to; and all the Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Matters, and Things in the said Act contained, for charging the Duty in Cases of such Letting for a Day, as are mentioned in the said Act, shall extend to all Cases of such Letting for twenty-eight successive complete Days, or any less Period of Time, where the Distance or Use as aforesaid shall not be or cannot be ascertained; and also all the Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Matters, and Things in the said Act contained for preventing Frauds, where Horses shall be let to Hire as expressed in the said Act for two or more Days shall extend and be applied to all Cases of letting Horses to Hire as aforesaid, for twenty-eight or more successive complete Days, as fully and effectually as if the Provisions of this Actbefore mentioned had been inserted in the said recited Act, and incorporated therewith; and the Notes, Tickets, or Certificates to be supplied from the Stamp Office as directed by the said Act, to distinguish the Cases of Horses being hired for a Day, or any less Period of Time, from Hirings for two or more Days, shall respectively be filled up and delivered to distinguish the Cases of letting for twenty-eight Days, or any less Period of Time, from Hirings for more than twenty-eight Days, but nevertheless in all other Respects in the Manner and under the Regulations contained in the said Act.
II Person letting Horses for more than 28 Days, shall, in an Account to be provided \(See ∥ 9.), enter a Memorandum of every Ticket issued by them, on Penalty of 50 l. .
II. And be it further enacted, That every Person letting any Horses to Hire for any Period of Time exceeding twenty-eight successive complete Days, shall, from and after the thirty-first Day ofJanuary One thousand eight hundred and three, in an Account to be provided annually, and prepared as herein-after is mentioned, enter or cause to be entered a Note or Memorandum of every Ticket or Certificate of such Hiring, to be issued by him or her in pursuance of the said recited Act and this Act, on the Day on which the same shall be issued, and shall insert therein the Day of the Month, the Number of Hordes so hired, and the Period of such Hiring, and the Name and Place of Abode of the Person hiring the same, and to which such Person shall add the Name of every Servant, whether Coachman, Groom, Postilion, or Helper, hired with such Horses, and also the Description of every Carriage, whether Coach, Berlin, Landau, Chariot, Sociable, Calash, Chaise Marine, Chaise, or Caravan, by whatever Name or Names the same may be called or known, and let to Hire with such Horses; and if any Person so letting Horses to Hire shall neglect to insert...
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